Files in directory /LICENSES of check-in 5789a03da2385a69
- BSD-2-Clause.txt
- CC-by-SA-4.0.txt
- README.md
- SPDX-header-for-code.txt
- SPDX-header-for-documentation.txt
Licenses
This directory documents the legal text of the licenses applying to the Libfossil Documentation project.
All files in this project should in addition have a Software Package Data Exchange machine-readable header.
Two-clause BSD License
The two-clause BSD license applies to libfossil code. This license is also known as the "Simplified BSD license" and the "FreeBSD license".
Astute observers will notice that many of the lower-level bits of libfossil are almost verbatim copies of those from the Fossil SCM project (https://fossil-scm.org) but claim different copyright holders. Such code was ported or copied into this project, and the copyright changed to this project's developers, with the express consent of D. Richard Hipp (copyright holder of the Fossil SCM code).
Creative Commons License
The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license applies to libfossil documentation. Where documentation is derived from Libfossil code (eg by the Doxygen tool the resulting documentation is also under the Creative Commons license.